How come almost all modern Isekai fantasy worlds are so goddamn generic? Basically all western fantasy writers, even the shitty ones, try to make their worlds at least somewhat unique, while Isekai worlds are almost exclusively extremely generic. Are Isekai writers inherently uncreative? Even the decent isekai series like ReZero or Log Horizon have painfully boring worlds.
How come almost all modern Isekai fantasy worlds are so goddamn generic? Basically all western fantasy writers...
Logan Davis
Brody Lee
Japan has a history of being incredibly loyal to their traditions and culture, even if it’s genuinely immoral or downright horrifying. So the idea that Isekai’s are a incestuos spiral of homogenized ideas that are done better by their contemporaries isn’t too far fetched.
Nathan Perry
>Are Isekai writers inherently uncreative?
yes
Christopher Green
>decent isekai series like ReZero
Henry Brooks
>decent isekai series like ReZero
Austin Myers
Because they all steal from Dragon Quest or each other.
Jackson Powell
Re: Zero has an incredibly fucking weird world, it's just the focus is on the characters and not on that.
Structurally it's like Rance's world except if you fall off the edge you just fucking die instead of dropping in at some random point at the top.
Juan Anderson
Most writers in general can’t make fun or interesting worlds.
Joseph Anderson
Because Isekai is a gateway to success, atleast in Japan for litteraly whos. From there, authors use this "success" to work on real project or to have their names out there in the industry.
Grayson Clark
>Even the decent isekai series like ReZero
This kind of new faggotry, swear.
Jordan Brown
Japanese writers are amateur plagiarists who only know to consume tropes and shit them back out with their own spin. Web novels should never have been adapted into light novels and light novels should never be adapted into anime.
Liam Sullivan
Only thing Rayearth has going for it is the cel art and girls
Lincoln Butler
>Basically all western fantasy writers, even the shitty ones, try to make their worlds at least somewhat unique
I wouldn't call copying Lord of the Rings somewhat unique.
Austin Hernandez
but it's the same generic tolkienesque western mmorpg fantasy world; while something like Dorohedoro's world has unique aesthetic and features, I even forget that it's technically a fantasy setting
Joshua Carter
I think most isekai authors are just amateurs who write light/web novels for fun
Juan Cooper
The amount of cute girls in isekai matters more than the world itself.
Henry Howard
Isekai genre is popular because the writers aren't creative. They're otaku themselves so they just copy the things they like, creating an endless cycle of overused, uncreative tropes
It's not a problem exclusive to Isekai novels, it's a problem for genre fiction in general.
Liam Williams
Elves aside, who basically don't exist in the setting anyway, it doesn't have any of the tolkien races. It also doesn't resemble LotR in political or national organization. It also has zero game elements, nobody has levels, nobody has stats.
Gavin Lewis
If we had just invaded and occupied Japan we could have forced them to read western literature and they would have good taste. This didn't have to happen.
Jonathan Wood
these worlds need plague victims crawling elegantly
John Lewis
>but it's the same generic tolkienesque western mmorpg fantasy world
No isekai setting is like Tolkien. Tokien is closer to the real world with fantasy elements, racial parallels and Bible myths as historical fact.
What you're thinking of is JRPG setting.
Dominic Gomez
Shut up Nurgle
Leo Ward
Most Isekai writers struggle with world building, none of their worlds seem unique or real but like the stage of a play only there to be in the background.
Luke Gomez
When I watch isekai I get the sensation I'm playing a classic JRPG like Final Fantasy VI. It's probably to evoke that kind of aesthetic, like you're playing a classic video game but all the NPCs are RPing properly.
Christian Perry
>Are Isekai writers inherently uncreative?
Yes.
Nolan Perry
What would happen if a isekai light novelist wrote an Conan the Barbarian or Warhammer Fantasy/40K story?
Dylan Allen
But how does that work? You are then "known" for a shitty generic isekai. How does that convince anyone of your ability as an author?
Joseph Barnes
The Silmarillion is absolutely anime.
Isaac Price
FFVI's world is somewhat interesting though. Most fantasy anime settings are just Dragon Quest clones
Juan Moore
A generic JRPG setting was inspired by Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Those games were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry. Both of those series were heavily inspired by The Lord of the Rings with some sci-fi elements. So technically Tolkien influenced everything.
Camden Smith
>decent isekai series like ReZero
Gabriel Bailey
Based Sataniaposter.
James Rivera
How come these threads are so generic?